IN RE HARPER

Docket No. 19358.

96 Cal.App.3d 138 (1979)

157 Cal. Rptr. 759

In re LEONARD HARPER on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

August 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Michael G.H. Anderson for Petitioner.

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, Clifton R. Jeffers, Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Harriet Wiss Hirsch, Eric Multhaup and Frances Ternus, Deputy State Public Defenders, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, John T. Murphy, Karl S. Mayer and Kenneth C. Young, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


OPINION

RACANELLI, P.J.

In this original habeas corpus proceeding, we examine the narrow issue whether a legislative amendment extending the maximum period of parole may be retroactively applied so as to automatically extend the parole period of those inmates previously released on parole.

Petitioner had been imprisoned under an indeterminate sentence of five years to life upon his conviction of first degree robbery in 1974...

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